TD's effect on contemporary synth design generally very well known - but there are interesting details which are to be revealed to the public audience. We try to cover some of them.

First of all, let's get into the famous Japanese synth maker, Korg's Wavestation. It was based on a late 1980s american synthesis idea called Vector Synthesis which is able to create exciting digital sound with lots of movements - it was a breakthrough because everybody assigned digital synthesis with the static, lifeless sound. TD used the Wavestation family very heavily in the early 90s years, especially Rockoon and 220 Volt were full of vector sounds. The last member of the family, Wavestation SR contained almost 1000 sound program, and one of them is dedicated to TD by name "Tangerine D.", and by the specific character of sound it produced.

Our picture shows the software version of the original synth released two years ago by Korg itself. Basically it has the same sound like the original hardware synths but now it has much more features sonically and practically also.

To demonstrate this sound program called "Tangerine D." we prepared some small audio files. The program splits the keyboard into two parts. In the bass you can play on an automated octave bass sequence which has the same delay effect you get used to on 70s TD recordings. Click to hear it.

At the upper side of the keyboard you can reach a short sawtooth waveform segment layered with a sustained synth string sound - also a TD sound classic. Check it monophonic or in a usual-TD C minor chord.

Finally we will try how close we can get to a TD performance with two-hand playing :)